Least surprising headline of the day (so far)

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run away!

Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, business associates arrested in sex-trafficking probe

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested Tuesday as part of a sex trafficking investigation.

The disgraced fashion giant boss was nabbed in West Palm Beach, Florida, while two of his business associates, Matthew Smith and James Jacobson, were also arrested in the case, sources confirmed to The Post.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn were set to hold a news conference later Tuesday to announce the charges in the sex trafficking and interstate prostitution case – including the “former CEO of a major company.”

The arrests come roughly a year after the FBI started probing claims Jeffries allegedly orchestrated elaborate sex events to exploit and sexually abuse young male models during his 22-year tenure at the brand.

This is what passes for modern journalism these days

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There’s no fooling the heirs of Woodward and Bernstein : “81 percent likely that this is AI-generated”

Verified photos of the former president at the football game on Sunday night show him in a suite at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, wearing a blue suit and a red tie.

However, the image posted on Truth Social depicts Trump on a football field wearing a jersey for the Pittsburgh Steelers — there is no evidence this ever occurred.

Trump's torso and arms also appear to have been altered to appear more muscular than they do in other photos and videos of Trump in sportswear, such as those posted by Trump Golf's Instagram account in July.

According to an image detector search through 'Is It AI?' the photo is 81 percent likely to be constructed by AI.

Another AI image detector site, AIimagedetector.org, also concluded that the picture was likely AI-generated, stating the picture is approximately 30 percent human and nearly 70 percent AI-generated.

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign for comment via email outside of business hours, as well as to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

And this is the farce face of modern journalism: Meet NYU graduate Maya Mehtara, proving that Kamalla is not the only half-Indian idiot wandering America. Mind you, no word on the heritage of the editor who approved this piece of sh*t ground-breaking investigative reporting, assuming Newsweek still employs such.

“The force of moronism is strong with this one.”

Still more fried liberals shots

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(Amazing Photoshop — someone put smiles on the FBI agents faces*, I’m impressed)

Andin the news ….

*(Original photo)

Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime

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lavrently beria had nothing on our current regime

The headline was plucked from a comment to the Twitter post below, but, yes.

And there’s this:

This news item in initially presented as an amusing stupid crook tale, but who's more dangerous, the criminal or the judge? Jail 'em both, for years.

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Ex NFL-er released from jail after fumbling $1.2 million cash heist in 2021: report

A former pro football player’s plot to rob $1.2 million in marijuana profits three years ago went awry when he discovered the bags full of stolen cash were too heavy to carry — so he chucked them in the Colorado woods and ran away.

But Devin Aguilar — a former college standout who briefly played for the Tennessee Titans more than a decade ago — made another big mistake during the previously unreported December 2021 heist: He forgot his gloves in one of the money bags, which CBS News said was later found by the cops.

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On the day of the crime — Dec. 1, 2021 — the washed-up athlete dressed in black from head to toe, pulled out his pistol and snuck up on a transport van driver, who was pulling into the company garage with $1,224,785 from marijuana businesses throughout the state, CBS said.

The driver had no clue she was being tailed as she pulled into the holding facility — until Aguilar sprang up on her.

He got her out of the van, then held her at gunpoint as she filled the big trash bags with cash.

Read the full article to enjoy the stupidity, but the conclusion of the tale is infuriating, not funny:

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Huya [the accomplice, who conspired for six months to plan and execute the theft with her boyfriend] … eventually admitted to her role in the scheme — took a plea bargain, admitted to armed robbery and was sentenced to six months in jail and probation, CBS reported.

Meanwhile, Aguilar also took a deal that let him plead guilty to felony theft and aggravated robbery.

Prosecutors asked Judge Joseph Whitfield to imprison him for 15 to 20 years — but the judge jailed him for just one year.

In the end, the gun-wielding thief served less than seven months behind bars.  

Both cops and the business he robbed were disgusted.

“It is not what we believe the suspect deserved, and we do not believe that the victims got the justice they deserved,” Cohn said.

A representative for the transport business echoed his comments and said they were “disappointed, but not surprised” that the “soft on crime” judge meted out such a weak punishment.

“We still rely on our justice system and hope that justice is equitable and appropriate for all involved parties … But I think that hope is fading.”

The driver added that she’s been suffering panic attacks and paranoia since the bone-chilling incident, and is now in therapy for anxiety.

Seven months in jail for armed robbery.

New listing on Rogues Hill

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not a zebra to be seen, and only an ironic reference to the orange, but overall, pretty nice

180 Round Hill Road, $6.4 million. Nothing on the web as of this writing (11:25), but I’ll provide a link when it appears. (Update: Oops! It has appeared on the web, sort of, but labelled as “restricted address”. That’s a new one on me, but forget that I ever gave out the address.)

Until then, here’s what this 1900 home looked like in 2020. when it was put up for sale at $1.750 and sold for $2 million. The builder has completely renovated it and almost doubled its size, from 3,268 sq. ft. to 5,926.

Gub'ment work

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electric chainsaws shipped to powerless N.C. by FEMA in anticipation of its workers using them as handsaws

Thirteen workers” to move a (very small) log fifty feet, plus one to watch, and how many off-camera, supervising?

If you had a wheelbarrow in that video, you could let all but one or two of those expensive federal employees go help someone else. 

Of course, efficiency was not the point: showing effort was--and the more employees, the better. 

Back in the pre-iPhone camera days, I wrote a letter (it was also before email) to the editor of Greenwich Time, noting that I’d seen a town crew digging a ditch on Summit Avenue in Riverside that day; there were two men actually doing something, a third standing around with a shovel, ready to ward off attack squirrels, I suppose, and five observers, presumably supervisors, standing around chatting. I thought that was a misallocation of resources, and said so, and the letter was just snarky enough to prompt a reply from the head of Public Works, “explaining” why those supervisors were critical to the mission. Uh huh.

My favorite composition from those days, because it actually elicited a public response by our Chief of Police, was one that pointed out an item in the paper’s police blotter reporting that eight of our finest had gone to the Cos Cob residence of one of the members of the Chimblo criminal branch (there are two branches of the Chimblo family in town: one is the good one, with plenty of notable accomplishments, the other is on its third — probably fourth, by now — generation of drug addicts, wife-beaters and thieves). Eight cops, but the target escaped out the back door. I suggested that, rather than have them all assemble on the front porch like a sad sack collection of Sam & Silos, a better approach might have been to station two officers at each of the four sides of the house and nab the miscreant as he fled.

“Although the Greenwich Police Department does not ordinarily publicly respond to citizens’ complaints”, the obviously embarrassed chief began, “in this case ….” . Hahahaha — victory! (I also received a nice postcard, illustrated with a drawing of his cartoon cops Sam and Silo, from Greenwich’s own, Jerry Dumas, thanking me for the nice mention; that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that lasted for years until Jerry’s lamentable passing).

I was careful not to violate any traffic laws for several years after the letter’s publication, however.